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nefarious, a.|nɪˈfɛərɪəs|
[f. L. nefārius, f. nefas wrong, impiety: see -ous.]
Wicked, iniquitous, villainous.
1604R. Cawdrey Table Alph. (1613), Nefarious, wicked, detestable. 1660F. Brooke tr. Le Blanc's Trav. 244 A man once observed to be nefarious, is hated and avoyded by all men. 1726Ayliffe Parergon 107 But the most nefarious kind of Bastards are they whom the Law stiles Incestuous Bastards. 1790Burke Fr. Rev. Wks. V. 261 Those who, for the same nefarious purposes, have perverted every other part of learning. 1830Gen. P. Thompson Exerc. (1842) I. 245 There wants a collection of dying speeches of nefarious governments. 1866Livingstone Last Jrnls. (1873) I. i. 6 Lending their flag to slaving dhows, so that it covers that nefarious traffic.
Hence neˈfariously adv., in a nefarious manner; neˈfariousness (Bailey vol. II, 1727).
1599Nashe Lenten Stuffe Wks. (Grosart) V. 284 Nefariously..prophaning & penetrating our holy fathers nostrils. 1659J. Owen Integr. Heb. & Grk. Text Wks. 1853 XVI. 413 They have wickedly and nefariously corrupted the text. 1695Pol. Ballads (1860) II. 50 The Bar, the Pulpit, and the Press Nefariously combine To cry up an usurped pow'r. 1827Scott Napoleon xxiv, It was nefariously unjust. |